The rise and fall of Sam & Phoebe Burgess

A woman has gone to desperate lengths to save her relationship by charging her boyfriend a fee if he breaks his 4am curfew.Source:Reddit

A woman who is fed up with her boyfriend being out until the early hours of the morning has decided to charge him $70 if he’s not home by 4am.

In a desperate bid to save her relationship, the woman posted a lengthy explanation behind her reasoning on Reddit, saying she feels like an a**hole but has run out of ideas.

While some could understand where she was coming from, not all agreed with her fee-charging tactic.

“Your issue is trying to fine him to change who/what he is. His issue is ignoring your needs,” one user said.

“You don’t seem to be able to properly communicate your feelings to each other, or he just doesn’t care how you feel,” another wrote.

While one said: “This is a really stupid and childish game both of you are playing.”

In the post, she revealed that despite being a “natural homebody”, she’d developed a drinking problem when they first started dating, due to the death of her mother.

“After moving in together, I was still wrestling with alcoholism and stayed out a handful of times (about five times in a year) until 3am,” the woman said in her lengthy post.

A woman has gone to desperate lengths to save her relationship by charging her boyfriend a fee if he breaks his 4am curfew.Source:istock

“Frequently, I’d irresponsibly allow my phone to die while I continued drinking. Every time, my boyfriend expressed that he hated this.

“He hated the staying out late and he hated the dead phone.

“He told me it was unacceptable. Eventually, it seemed like such a big deal to my boyfriend that I just sucked it up, stopped staying out late, and stopped drinking.”

But now the tables have turned, the woman said, with her boyfriend out most weekends until about 5am.

She said that while she never asks of his whereabouts or who he’s with, the double standards bother her.

“He tells me he’ll be home by a certain time and doesn’t make it. When I (call) him out on how he treated me for coming home late, he back-pedals. I’m tired of wasting my breath.”

For this reason, she’s decided to create a rule — not just for him, but her too.

She said if either of them aren’t home by 4am — they have to cough up $71.Source:Reddit

“Tonight when he left at midnight, I made a proposition. If either one us aren’t home at 4am, we have to give the other $50 ($A70) and no-one can be angry,” she said.

“My reasoning is that he’s either going to tire of paying the $50 and come home on time or afford me the same level of understanding for occasionally staying out until the bars close.”

Since uploading her post to Reddit last night, many have weighed in on her actions, saying her fee-charging plan won’t save her relationship.

“Y’all are supposed to be adults. Charging someone $50 for staying out too late is laughable to me,” one user wrote.

“He’s doing what you used to, except he keeps himself available at all times by phone. What’s the issue if you can, at any time, reach out and make sure he’s OK? Absolutely a terrible idea to charge him for coming home late,” said another.